The Old Corrector
Richard Altick, 4 November 1982
Fortune and Men’s Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier
by Dewey Ganzel.
Oxford, 454 pp., £15, October 1982,0 19 212231 2 Show More
by Dewey Ganzel.
Oxford, 454 pp., £15, October 1982,
“... is the studiously even-handed biography of an ambiguous and not especially likeable man who, Ganzel thinks, was convicted of a crime he did not commit. It is also, in part, an absorbing exercise in what might be called ‘forensic bibliography’, ranking with John Carter and Graham Pollard’s classic exposé of the Wise forgeries, An Enquiry into the ... ”